Mitigating Safety Risk through Confidential Reporting

This paper demonstrates how unique insights from confidential reporting can reinforce safety defences, helping to improve organisational resilience, and ultimately, prevent accidents. CIRAS is able to capture information from... [ view full abstract ]

This paper demonstrates how unique insights from confidential reporting can reinforce safety defences, helping to improve organisational resilience, and ultimately, prevent accidents. CIRAS is able to capture information from frontline staff who choose for a variety of reasons to use an independent service. This information might otherwise be lost by conventional, internal reporting systems because in certain circumstances, they may not be fully utilised. CIRAS is therefore in a position to share why some staff feel that internal reporting channels have not been successful, or in a minority of cases have come directly to CIRAS.